Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - May 10

Published on Friday, May 15, 2026

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Open-source

GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with OSS contributions by Kedasha Kerr

Software Architecture

Don't overestimate domain expertise by Oskar Dudycz

Debugging Event-Driven Systems: 5 Problems Teams Create by Derek Comartin

.NET

Propagating OpenTelemetry context in .NET by Gérald Barré

API Versioning Should Be Your Last Resort by Milan Jovanović

I've Been Busy Updating My Pluralsight Courses by Shawn Wildemuth

Wolverine Middleware and Some Random Observations by Jeremy D. Miller

REST/APIs

83 of the Fortune 100 Have a Developer or API Portal by Kin Lane

Azure

Least privilege AI agents: A new azd template from Curity and Microsoft by Kristen Womack

Generative AI in Document Processing with Azure by Manish Sharma

Azure Cosmos DB Shell Public Preview: AI-Powered CLI by Sajeetharan Sinnathurai

Software Development

Why age assurance laws matter for developers by Margaret Tucker

What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap by Mark Downie

AI

The cost of always having the answer by Mike Amundsen

Things I Think I Think... about Coding Agents and IDEs by Ted Neward

Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows by Landon Cox, Mara Kiefer

Agent pull requests are everywhere. Here's how to review them. by Andrea Griffiths

Copilot Studio gets faster with .NET 10 on WebAssembly by Daniel Roth

Seeing MCP by Kin Lane

Validating agentic behavior when “correct” isn’t deterministic by Gaurav Mittal, Reshabh Kumar Sharma

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